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  1. The long threadlike extension of a nerve
  2. cell that conducts electrochemical impulses
  3. away from the cell body towards other nerve
  4. cells, or towards an effector organ such as a
  5. muscle.  Axons terminate in synapses with
  6. other nerve cells, muscles, or glands.
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  8. Subject by: Russell Webb
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